Calling all readers, performers, and writers! Join us to share your own original material, or your favourite work by someone else: novels, stories, poems, songs, plays, memoirs, creative nonfiction, etc. Come enjoy reading, performing, or just listening. Five minutes maximum per person, please. Teens, adults, and performers at all levels of English are all welcome.
First Wednesday of each month, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
In-person space is limited: contact the Library to register. Also accessible live via Zoom from the Library’s website.
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Gibsons Library: Book Club: Beneath the Surface of Things
Come join our discussion of Beneath the Surface of Things, a book of essays by Canadian anthropologist, Wade Davis.
Through his anthropological lens, Wade Davis’s new collection of essays explores topics including the demonization of coca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond fear of climate change; and the meaning of the sacred.
This is a guilt free book club- come even if you haven’t read the book yet!
Write On: Quiet Writing Time
You’re invited to come Write On for some quiet writing time here at the Library on the third Wednesday of the month. No instruction or critique, just quiet time and space to write. Work on any writing you wish, in the company of your fellow writers.
Facilitator: Cathalynn (Cindy) Labonte-Smith
Drop in, no registration required.
BC Libraries Present – Alicia Elliott: And Then She Fell
ONLINE ONLY EVENT
REGISTER to attend this live-streamed event.
Following the success of her groundbreaking memoir A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, Alicia Elliot’s new novel And Then She Fell has quickly become an award-winning national bestseller. It’s a story about Native life, motherhood, and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences.
For the first event of this fall lineup, join Alicia Elliott in conversation with award-winning author Carleigh Baker.
Alicia Elliott (she/her) is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt, and many others.
REGISTER HERE to attend this live-streamed event.
Gibsons Library: Open Microphone Night
Calling all readers, performers, and writers! Join us to share your own original material, or your favourite work by someone else: novels, stories, poems, songs, plays, memoirs, creative nonfiction, etc. Come enjoy reading, performing, or just listening. Five minutes maximum per person, please. Teens, adults, and performers at all levels of English are all welcome.
In-person space is limited: register through the library’s website.
Gibsons Public Library: Murder Mystery
Fancy yourself a modern-day Sherlock Holmes? Put on your mystery-solving cap and join us for an evening of case files, clues, and murder…
Come as a team or solo, and fight the clock as you’re met with mysteries to solve using logic, skill, and the power of deduction! Bragging rights to the team or person who can solve the most mysteries in the hour.
Join us for this fun brain-challenging activity during the spookiest month of the year!
Registration required. Please register on the library’s website.
Gibsons Library: Monday Morning Meditation
Mondays Using traditional Buddhist Dharma psychology to calm the mind and alleviate suffering, facilitator John Thompson will lead guided Dharma meditations for short and long term solutions, and discuss these modalities. No registration required, drop in to any session. No class on statutory holiday Mondays.
Gibsons Library: Write On: Quiet Writing Time
You’re invited to come Write On for some quiet writing time here at the Library on the third Wednesday of the month. No instruction or critique, just quiet time and space to write. Work on any writing you wish, in the company of your fellow writers.
Facilitator: Cathalynn (Cindy) Labonte-Smith
Drop in, no registration required.
Gibsons Library: Book Club: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Come join our discussion of Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, a luminous debut novel about a widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium—and the truths she uncovers about her son’s disappearance 30 years ago.
Free but space is limited. Register through the Library’s website.
Gibsons Public Library: Mid-Autumn Festival
Come celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at the Library! Lanterns, moon cake tasting, calligraphy, music, dance performances, and more!
All ages welcome. Free, drop-in.
在圖書館慶祝中秋節。古箏、小提琴、大提琴, 钢琴演奏，書法，舞蹈表演，做燈籠、 分享月餅等。歡迎所有年齡段的人来参加！
No registration required.
Word Whips—Creative Writing Workshops with Fran Bourassa
Calling all poets, writers, and would-be writers of all ages and experience levels! Bypass your inner “editor” to find your authentic voice. Practice “free writing” short pieces from “word whip” prompts, that elicit memories, emotions, and powerful ideas for poetry and stories. This method is quick, powerful, and everyone can enjoy it. Fran Bourassa is an award-winning poet and contributing writer to numerous anthologies, including Breaking the Surface, Pacific Poetry Anthology, Force Field: 77 BC Poets. Registration is required; register online or call the Library at 604-886-2130.
Author Reading: Roberta Rich
Bestselling BC author Roberta Rich reads from her new riveting historical thriller, The Jazz Club Spy. A Jewish cigarette girl at a jazz club in 1939 New York finds the soldier who burned her Russian village years earlier, and gets swept up in a political conspiracy and espionage.
Also accessible live on Zoom from the Library’s website.
Free but in-person space is limited; register online or contact the Library.
Concert: Singer-Songwriter Rae Armour
Summer’s here! Kick back and chill at the Library. Enjoy the musical stylings of singer/songwriter/recording artist Rae Armour, who opened for Faith Hill in Whistler a few years ago and recently settled on the Coast. Rae’s heartfelt, and often humorous, folk/country original songs are easy on the ear. Come on down, and bring your friends!
Free but space is limited. Register online or contact the Library.
Creek Daze 2024
xRCCA is excited to invite you to CREEK DAZE 2024!
Join us this year as we kick off the festivities at Roberts Creek School, gathering for the lively Higgledy Piggledy Parade leading down to the Pier! Get creative with your costumes straight from the tickle trunk! Meet at 10:45am, parade at 11:11am!
Explore a diverse array of vendors offering information, crafts, delicious food, and engaging activities for everyone to enjoy. Kids will love the Kidz Zone featuring face painting, games, and playful activities. This year, we’re excited to feature a Youth Gallery showcasing the creative talents of our young artists.
Don’t miss the vibrant music performances at the mandala stage from 11:30am-6pm, Slow Sundays Stage at Library Park 12-3:30pm, book sale 12-3pm.
volunteersignup.org/DW9RR
Opportunity: Bookmark Design Contest for Kids
Deadline Aug 1. Does a young person you. know have a favourite book? They can show their book love by creating a bookmark with their original art and a quote and enter it in the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society’s Art& Words Festival’s
MY FAVOURITE BOOK – BOOKMARK CONTEST – For Writers, Readers & Artists (Under 18).
Request the entry template from sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com, download it from scwes.ca. Or copy and past this image into a word-processing file. Good luck.
Ch’kw’elhp Genealogy with Ḵ’atxa’mat Frances J. Nahanee
A talk on her Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestry from the village site of Ch’kw’elhp (Gibsons).
Rooted in nine generations of ancestors from Ch’kw’elhp, Fran will speak about her family tree, the importance of ancestral naming, and cultural protocol. Not to be missed!
Free but space is limited. Registration is recommended. Contact the Library at 604-886-2130 or register online.
Tech Help
Get free help with using your device.
Do you need assistance with :
*using your smartphone, tablet, laptop or e-reader
*accessing email
*surfing the internet
*posting to social media or other basic technology help…
Call the library at 604-886-2130 to make a 30 minute appointment. If your technology issue is beyond our scope, we are happy to refer you to other support resources in the community.
Roberts Creek Pier: Earth Day 2024
Come join us to celebrate Earth Day down at the Roberts Creek Pier Sunday, April 21st from noon-5pm!
Booksale at the Library in the Heart of the Creek from noon-3pm
Clothing swap by Wolfpup Studios – 1 bag maximum – email wolfpups.studio@gmail.com for early drop off.
List of booths:
RCCA booth;
Information booths;
Conscious vendors;
Kidz Zone.
Food from:
All Thaied Up;
Semir’s Hot Dog Cart;
Mamma Musey’s Pierogies;
Sushma’s Samosas;
Kitchen Classics;
Little Spoon Ice Cream;
Izzy’s Cotton Candy;
Bite Me Mini-donuts;
On Stage!
Control Group;
Mr. Doug;
Dally Mon;
Bae Baracus;
Sam Pulpo;
Water Talks from:
Stream Keepers;
Sunshine Coast Conservation Assoc;
Area Director Justine Gabias;
TraC Bike Valet and Tune-Up station!
It’s only with the help of volunteers that these events happen!
Volunteers sign up https://volunteersignup.org/DPJ4E
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